More: "Here's a guy who held a top secret clearance and was privy to some of the most sensitive information we have, who served in a combat zone," said Kenneth Koop, a retired colonel who trained the Afghan military and police during Mavalwalla's deployment. "To see him treated like this really sticks in my craw."

Who wants to risk arrest for speaking a foreign language in public?

Who would want to vacation in occupied cities?

Who wants to visit ideologically sanitized museums?

Who wants to go to national parks full of trash and overflowing pit toilets because they don't have the staff they need to clean them?

1) The bruised hands. The puzzle of Trump's badly bruised and heavily make-up-ed hands has been one of the summer's odder presidential story lines. The White House has maintained that the bruises come from how much Trump loves shaking hands. "President Trump is a man of the people and he meets more Americans and shakes their hands on a daily basis than any other President in history. His commitment is unwavering and he proves that every single day," Karoline Leavitt said.

White House physician Sean Barbabella breezily dismissed the bruising in a memo, saying it was "benign" and "consistent with minor soft tissue irritation from frequent handshaking," but there's reason to believe there's more to it than that. For one thing, the bruising isn't limited to his dominant handshaking hand; it also has been a regularly recurring phenomenon of the last year. Barbabella's dismissal also raises some curious questions, saying it's a common side-effect of "aspirin therapy," but it's not clear from at least our public understanding of the president's health (more on that below) that he should be on "aspirin therapy."

2) The pattern changes. Donald Trump is basically the most habit-bound and routine-bound man we know in American politics. And yet we've seen some major departures of his routine in recent weeks " including, not least of all, that he stuck in Washington all this weekend. Trump takes off for one of his golf resorts the first chance he can nearly every weekend of the year, and yet he's just choosing to spend an extra-long holiday weekend hanging out at the White House? Why? Is his medical team wanting to keep him closer to top secure medical facilities?

At the August 22nd Oval Office event where photos of Trump's bruised hands went viral, I was struck by something else " as Public Notice was too: The oddity of Trump appearing tie-less. In fact, all the men in the photo op are not wearing their ties, making clear that this was a coordinated decision to align with the president's sartorial choice. Trump effectively never appears in the Oval Office without a tie " remember how they berated Zelenskyy for appearing in the Oval Office without a suit earlier this year? Scroll back through the summer and there appears to be no recent precedent for the president NOT wearing a tie in the Oval Office. It also is a rare " if not unprecedented " time that he wears a hat while sitting at his desk in the Oval Office. So for this one event, one where the president's ill health appears on very public display, he and everyone else in the event, including JD Vance, chooses to go tie-less and he also wears a hat? At the very least, it would cause me to ask around about what else was going with Donald Trump on August 22nd?

More: According to one of the firefighters, they were denied the chance to say goodbye to the detained crew members.

"I asked them if his (family) can say goodbye to him because they're family, and they're just ripping them away," the firefighter told the Times. "And this is what he said: You need to get the (expletive) out of here. I'm gonna make you leave.'"

From the article: Governors from six US states have sent troops to Washington to help Trump's effort, swelling the ranks to nearly 2,100 who will soon be on patrol.

According to previous reporting, National Guard deployments cost the US government $530 per guard member each day. Using that figure, Homestead estimated that it would cost just over $1.1 million.

She added that "the number of troops will likely continue to grow. And with no deadline for the DC deployment, those costs could add up for months or even years."

According to the most recent data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), there are about 5,600 people experiencing either sheltered and unsheltered homelessness in DC on a given night. Operating an affordable housing unit for each one of them, the data shows, costs about $45.44 per person, per day, on average in DC.

Providing affordable housing to every homeless person in DC would cost an estimated $255,166, which is 4.3 times less than the cost of Trump's military deployment.

3 years is a long time.

Three years may just be the prelude.

And to whom does Trump have to justify anything currently?

#4,

Assuming troops will be sent home before Trump leaves office one way or the other is probably wishful thinking.

If this follows the playbook the administration seems to want to follow concentration camps will prevent them from coming back.

Also worth pointing out this guy wasn't elected but appointed by the state auditor after Republicans passed a law allowing themselves to force Republican majorities onto local elections boards.

Another republican trying to manufacture a controversy? Or just a guy trying to molest his own granddaughters?

Brings a new meaning to the term mass shooting.

Gives me a little hope to see normal Americans not playing along with the administration's power grab BS.

More: The grand jury's rejection of the felony charge was a remarkable failure by the U.S. attorney's office in Washington and the second time in recent days that a majority of grand jurors refused to vote to indict a person accused of felony assault on a federal agent. It also amounted to a sharp rebuke by a panel of ordinary citizens against the prosecutors assigned to bring charges against people arrested after President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents to fight crime and patrol the city's streets.

The rejection by grand jurors was particularly noteworthy given the attention paid to the case of the man who threw the sandwich, Sean C. Dunn. Video of the episode went viral on social media, senior officials talked about the case, and the administration posted footage of a large group of heavily armed law enforcement officers going to Mr. Dunn's apartment.

It remained unclear if prosecutors planned to try again to obtain an indictment against Mr. Dunn, 37, a former Justice Department paralegal. They could also forgo seeking felony charges and refile his case as a misdemeanor, which does not require an indictment to move forward.

He'd have to move. Governor Stein would never send NC guardsmen to help Trump attack Americans.

Shows you the level of respect the administration has for service members. Taking them away from their real jobs and their families to make them pick up trash in DC.

The California prop will be put on the ballot and voted on by the people.

The Utah maps were not.

This what they voted for. When they miss the next emergency broadcast alert it'll be their own fault.

More: Trump's attempt to remove a sitting Fed governor is unprecedented " and almost certainly illegal, according to legal scholars. Governors are appointed to 14-year terms and can only be fired "for cause," such as misconduct or failure to perform official duties. Personal financial claims " especially from before the appointment " don't meet that bar.

"This is a procedurally invalid removal under the statute," said Columbia law professor Lev Menand. "This is not someone convicted of a crime. This is not someone who is not carrying out their duties."

Cook, who was appointed by President Joe Biden in 2022, is the first Black woman to serve on the Fed's Board of Governors. She's now fighting back with a legal team led by high-powered attorney Abbe Lowell.

"His reflex to bully is flawed and his demands lack any proper process, basis or legal authority," Lowell said of Trump. "We will take whatever actions are needed to prevent his attempted illegal action."

More: "Proposition 4 is the law in Utah on redistricting. H.B. 2004, the 2021 Congressional Map, which was not enacted under S.B. 200 and not Proposition 4, cannot lawfully govern future elections in Utah," Gibson wrote. "Use of H.B. 2004, the 2021 Congressional Map, in any future elections is hereby ENJOINED."

The ruling permanently blocks use of the GOP-drawn 2021 congressional map that split Salt Lake County into four districts, diluting the power of non-Republican voters.

"The Legislature intentionally stripped away all of Proposition 4's core redistricting standards and procedures that were mandatory and binding on it," Gibson added. "To permit the 2021 Congressional Plan to remain in place would reward the very constitutional violation this Court has already identified and would nullify the people's 2018 redistricting reform."

The court ordered lawmakers to redraw Utah's congressional districts under the rules of Proposition 4. They have until September 24 to deliver a compliant plan.

If they fail " or if the new map doesn't meet the law's standards " plaintiffs and other groups may submit their own maps for the court to consider.

More: Grand juries decline to indict, known as a "no true bill," in only a small fraction of federal cases. To secure an indictment prosecutors need only show probable cause a crime was committed. That's much lower than the standard in criminal trials. A grand jury declining to indict three times on the same case is a warning the evidence may not stand up at trial, according to attorney Christopher Macchiaroli, a partner at Silverman Thompson Slutkin White who previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the federal prosecutor's office in D.C.

"Seeking an indictment for a third time is extremely rare and usually only reserved for the most serious of crimes," Macchiaroli said. "If a governmental entity cannot convince a super majority of grand jurors that there is a fair probability that a crime was committed, it is virtually impossible to believe that twelve jurors in the same relevant jurisdiction could unanimously at a future date find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, the highest standard of proof under the law."

Reid was arrested in July for allegedly resisting attempts to restrain her after she refused to back away from ICE officers who were conducting arrests outside the D.C. Jail. In the process, they said, an FBI agent received scrapes to the back of her hand.

Becoming? America, built on slavery and the genocide of Native Americans, has always been amoral.

We made some progress in the latter half of the last century but we're backsliding.

No wonder you never did anything with your life other than cruise bath houses looking for dope money.
#11 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Every accusation is a confession.

No one fears -----.
#24 | Posted by boaz

No one fears their what? Purchasing power? Decorating ability? Fashion sense? Tight grip on the zeitgeist? Deep penetration of American culture? Throbbing, pulsating dance music?

Yeah, let us know how well that works out.

I dont think

#1 | Posted by boaz

We know.